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angrily.
    Glaring at him, Tania tried to peel his fingers off her arm. “Let go, Sandy!” she ordered through clenched teeth.
    Sandy tightened his grip and shook her.
    Tania’s head whipped back.
    Eva gasped. He’s going to hurt her, she realized.
    â€œLet go!” Tania screamed.
    She swung her free arm up to slug him. But Sandy grabbed that one, too.
    â€œI’m not letting you go!” Sandy roared furiously. “I’ll never let you go!”
    â€œStop it, you’re hurting me!” Tania screamed.
    Eva saw Sandy’s hands reach up and grip Tania’s shoulders. His eyes blazed with rage. He shook her viciously, back and forth, until her head wobbled like a rag doll’s.
    He’ll kill her! Eva thought. He’s crazy!
    â€œStop!” she shouted. “Sandy, stop it!” She started toward them.
    Sandy kept shaking. Harder and harder.
    Twisting in his grip, Tania finally managed to crash her fist into the side of his head.
    Sandy staggered and stared at her, blinking in pain. Then he lunged at Tania. His hands circled her throat.
    â€œWhat are you doing?” Tania shrieked. “You’re choking me! Stop it! Stop!”
    He’s
killing
her! Eva thought desperately. Sandy’s killing her. I have to stop him!
    Tania’s cries turned to horrible strangling sounds. Her eyes bulged. Her arms dropped limply at her sides and her knees buckled.
    Eva stared in horror as Tania slumped lifelessly to the ground.
    â€œNo!” Eva screamed into the silence. “Nooo!”

chapter 7
 
    â€œC ut!” Keith shouted. “That was excellent! Take a couple of minutes, everybody!” He straightened up from the video camera.
    Eva watched Tania roll onto her back and stare up at the blue October sky.
    Sandy strolled away from her, flexing his hands and grinning to himself.
    Eva sneezed loudly, then sat cross-legged in the grass and sighed. They’d already done the scene three times.
    It had been fun at first, but now she felt a little bored. And hungry.
    â€œEva, that was an
excellent
scream,” Keith told her. “Really gave me the creeps.”
    â€œThanks.” It gave
her
the creeps, too. The entire story did.
    â€œThe whole scene went very well, guys,” Keith announced. “Unfortunately, we have to do it again.”
    â€œYou’re kidding.” Sandy wheeled around. “What for?”
    Keith pointed to the sky. “Check out the plane.”
    Eva glanced up and saw a small silver plane gliding overhead. She hadn’t noticed it before, of course. But now she could hear how loud it was.
    â€œI don’t want that on the soundtrack,” Keith explained. “And there’s no way to keep it off except to wait until it goes by.”
    Sandy shook his head angrily.
    Keith shrugged. “Hey, that’s an outdoor shoot. What can you do?”
    â€œSo why don’t we shoot indoors?” Sandy demanded. “It would make things a whole lot easier.”
    Keith shook his head. “Lighting rooms can be tricky. Besides, I wrote the thing for outdoors, and that’s where I want to tape it.”
    â€œGreat!” Sandy rolled his eyes. “I don’t know if I can top the performance I just gave.”
    Eva rolled her eyes. Mr. Conceited, she thought. The first video Sandy has ever been in, and suddenly he’s acting like he’s Tom Cruise!
    â€œGive us a break, Keith!” Sandy argued. “Play the tape back. Maybe the plane noise isn’t on it.”
    Keith pointed to the headphones slung around his neck. “I already heard it, loud and clear,” hereplied. “Would you stop griping, Sandy? Let’s do the scene again before something else goes wrong.”
    With a scowl and a huge, dramatic sigh, Sandy began moving toward Tania, who still lay on her back. “Come on, Tania,” he told her. “Let’s get this over with. If we’re lucky, we might actually